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Poolside pricing
Poolside publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 29 August 2026, Poolside pricing is $0.06/month across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- $0.06/month
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Poolside plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laguna XS 2.1 | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
| Laguna S 2.1 | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise / Government | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Laguna XS 2.1
On requestThe entry tier. It covers $0.06 per 1m input tokens, $0.12 per 1m output tokens, available via openrouter and vercel ai gateway.
Laguna S 2.1
On requestOver Laguna XS 2.1, this tier adds:
- $0.10 per 1M input tokens
- $0.20 per 1M output tokens
- 1M token context window
Enterprise / Government
On requestOver Laguna S 2.1, this tier adds:
- Custom contracts for large engineering organizations
- Sales-quoted pricing
- On-premise or dedicated deployment options
What the product covers
The full Poolside feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
core
- Laguna S 2.1
- Laguna XS 2.1
- Desktop and CLI tools
- Open-weight models
integration
- Third-party gateway access
People bring Poolside in for enterprises deploying ai coding assistance across large developer organizations, government and defense agencies needing on-premise or sovereign coding models, teams building custom coding agents on open-weight foundation models, organizations wanting on-device lightweight coding models. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Poolside are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in AI
Too few ai tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poolside (this page) | $0.06/month | usage-based | - | |
| Avathon | On request | quote | - | vs Poolside |
| C3 AI Suite | On request | quote | - | vs Poolside |
| Rev | Free | Per minute for human work, per seat per month for AI | - | vs Poolside |
| Veritone | On request | quote | - | vs Poolside |
| Verbit | $24/month | Per month by transcription hours | - | vs Poolside |
| LatchBio | On request | quote | - | vs Poolside |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Poolside badges page.
Before you pay for Poolside
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Poolside against the tools that do have one before committing.
Poolside runs on web, api, mac, windows, linux, and is published by Poolside of San Francisco, USA. The full record is on the Poolside review, and the rest of the category is under best ai tools.
Poolside pricing questions
- How much does Poolside cost?
- Poolside publishes 3 tiers, from On request for Laguna XS 2.1 up to On request for Enterprise / Government. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Poolside have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Poolside is listed as usage-based. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Laguna XS 2.1 and Laguna S 2.1 on Poolside?
- Laguna S 2.1 costs On request against On request, and adds $0.10 per 1m input tokens, $0.20 per 1m output tokens, 1m token context window.
- Which ai tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 ai tools listed alongside Poolside have a free tier: Rev, AutoGen, Vellum.
- What am I actually paying for with Poolside?
- The record lists 5 features across 2 areas: core, integration. In practice it is brought in for enterprises deploying ai coding assistance across large developer organizations, government and defense agencies needing on-premise or sovereign coding models, teams building custom coding agents on open-weight foundation models.
- Does Poolside charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Poolside prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Poolside against before paying?
- The closest ai tools in this directory are Avathon, C3 AI Suite, Rev, Veritone. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Poolside covering price, platforms and features.